Affiliations: Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of
Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan.
E-mails: {bd07001, bd07003}@bene.fit.ac.jp | Department of Information and Communication
Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi,
Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan. E-mail: barolli@fit.ac.jp | Department of Engineering, Toyota Technological
Institute, 2-12-1 Hisakata, Tenpaku-ku, Nagoya 468-8511, Japan.
E-mail: demarco@toyota-ti.ac.jp | Department of Computer and Information Science,
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 W. Michigan Street SL
280, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. E-mail: durresi@cs.iupui.edu | Department of Languages and Informatics Systems,
Technical University of Catalonia, C/Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
E-mail: fatos@lsi.upc.edu
Abstract: In this paper, we evaluate the performance of Optimized Link State
Routing (OLSR) protocol by experimental and simulation results. The experiments
are carried out by using our implemented testbed and the simulations by using
ns-2 simulator. We also designed and implemented a new interface for the
ad-hoc network testbed in order to make more easier the experiments. The
comparison between experimental and simulation results shows that for the same
parameters set, in the simulation we did not notice any packet loss. On the
other hand, in the experiments we experienced packet loss because of the
environment effects and traffic interference.
Keywords: Ad-hoc network, Optimized Link State Routing protocol, traffic interference
